The rule of law entails government accountability, equal access to justice and the political process, efficient judicial and political systems, clear laws, generally stable laws, and the protection of fundamental human rights. This paper explores whether Islamic law conforms to these principles in theory and in practice. Three conclusions are reached. First, various early Islamic institutions w...

It is claimed that social justice is firmly on the political agenda and is a major concern of numerous policy documents, think tanks and research units. However, ̳social justice‘ can be seen as a poorly defined ̳motherhood and apple pie‘ term. Virtually everyone is in favour of ̳social justice‘ but their interpretations of the term vary widely (there are many different varieties of apple!). We ...

Justice is one of the most important tendencies andinteractions in human existence that sustains the human society. In addition,one of the fundamental conce...

in cinema, the relationship between art and society is questioned more than other kinds of art. among all diverse approaches studying cinema, the reflection approach- believing cinema is impressed by the society. this approach is a theoretical framework of this research. the main question is how cinema reflected political demands of iranian society from 1995 to 2006. this period is noticeable c...

The Idea of Justice is one of those books that –whether we agree with its ultimate conclusions or not – will be virtually impossible to ignore. And for good reason: it takes on one of the great political philosophers of our time, John Rawls, and deepens, enriches and challenges some basic Rawlsian ideas. Sen’s basic argument is that the Rawlsian approach to justice, which has profoundly influen...

AS IN OTHER FIELDS OF POLITICS, MAJOR CHANGES IN THE JUSTICE SYSTEM tend to occur when there is not only a practical need and political support for change but also a theory or philosophy with which to justify new practices. The search for alternatives to the court system for dealing with young offenders is a good example. Practitioners and observers of the system for dealing with young offender...

We analyse five areas of feminist engagement with restorative justice (RJ): theories of justice; the role of retribution in criminal justice; studies of gender (and other social relations) in RJ processes; the appropriateness of RJ for partner, sexual, or family violence; and the politics of race and gender in making justice claims. Feminist engagement has focused almost exclusively on the appr...

BACKGROUND The paper examines the role of community-based participatory research (CBPR) within the context of social justice literature and practice. METHODS Two CBPR case studies addressing health inequities related to Type 2 Diabetes and Cardiovascular disease were selected from a national cross-site study assessing effective academic-community research partnerships. One CBPR partnership wo...

royal fiqh or what has come in these days as political jurisprudence with the inclusion of issues and topics of politics and government also contains topics of social and economic importance particularly those linked to combating poverty and public hunger as well as attention to social justice which scholars of islam paid attention from old days. authors in this way tried to check the system of...